The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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