Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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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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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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 soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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