This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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