In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAYSo I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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