I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
ALAN KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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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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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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