Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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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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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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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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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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