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 KAYIn a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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