People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYAnd I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build 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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