Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
ALAN KAYQuite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
ALAN KAYSo 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.
ALAN KAYTelevision should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYAn important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAYEvery technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYThe hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
ALAN KAYThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYJava and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYSimple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
ALAN KAYMuch of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAYBad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
ALAN KAYAny company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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