Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAYIt’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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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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