There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYTelevision should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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 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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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