When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
ALAN KAYAny medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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