There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
ALAN KAYThe tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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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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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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