The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
ALAN KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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