People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYAn important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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