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.
ALAN KAYThe 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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