It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
ALAN KAYThere’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
More Alan Kay Quotes
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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