Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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