Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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