Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAYThe flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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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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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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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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