Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
ALAN KAYArt also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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