Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
ALAN KAYThis tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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