Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves 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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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