Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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