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 KAYHaving an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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