To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
ALAN KAY
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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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