The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
ALAN KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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