There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYSimple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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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 Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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