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.
ALAN KAYIn a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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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 will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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