And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYThis tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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 tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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