Alan Kay Quotes, Able Quotes, Destruction Quotes

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)

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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.

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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

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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. 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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

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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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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

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