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.
ALAN KAYDon’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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 hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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