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 KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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