There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYI knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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