There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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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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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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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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