But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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 is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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