It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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