Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
ALAN KAYIf you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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