I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
ALAN KAYQuite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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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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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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