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 KAYI fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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