Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAYThere’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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