Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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