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.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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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.
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