This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
ALAN KAYIn a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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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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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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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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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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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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