But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
More Alan Kay Quotes
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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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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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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