Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
ALAN KAYThe soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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