Change is easy, except for the changed part.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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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.
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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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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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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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