People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYBasic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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