Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
ALAN KAYWhen was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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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.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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