Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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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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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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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