As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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.
ALAN KAYIt’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAYLisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYIn our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
ALAN KAYAn important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
ALAN KAYThe 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 KAYAnd I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYSo 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.
ALAN KAYI made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
ALAN KAYPerspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
ALAN KAYThe greatest single programming language ever designed
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