I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
ALAN KAYI 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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.
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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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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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