Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict 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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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