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 KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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