Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAYAn important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want 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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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