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.
ALAN KAYUnderstanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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