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.
ALAN KAYIn our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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 future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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