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 KAYJava and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started 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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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