People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYBad 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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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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’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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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