As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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