Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
ALAN KAY
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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 Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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