And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYThe future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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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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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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