People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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