And 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.
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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