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.
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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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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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