There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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