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.
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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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 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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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