Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAYAnd I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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 hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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