There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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 fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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