Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
ALAN KAYTo get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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