The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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