Zitat des Tages von Alan Kay:
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
Context is worth 80 IQ points.
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper.
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
It's hard to change information in books, but if we have everything online, then a somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the thing - which I think is what we have - gives us '1984.'
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.
Steve was perfectly aware of the Dynabook. That was one of the reasons he wanted me to come to Apple.
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Because people don't understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that 'Guitar Hero' is the same as a real guitar.
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.
