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.
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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