They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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