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 computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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