This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
ALAN KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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.
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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 will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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