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.
ALAN KAYSome people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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