As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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