The greatest single programming language ever designed
ALAN KAYAnd when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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