There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
ALAN KAYBecause 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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