Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAYBad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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