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.
ALAN KAYI had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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 real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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