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Bruce Horn, one of the precocious teens recruited to test Smalltalk, would go on to join the LRG staff, where he contributed to Smalltalk. He later joined Apple and helped design the original Macintosh.109 By describing kids like Horn as a “‘hacker phenomenon,’”110 Kay inadvertently points to another impediment: their designs targeted an idealized
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“You had a set of folks running these machines who were the priesthood of hardware, and the rest of us were railing against it,” says Chris Brown, a software-development manager at the time. “We wanted a playground where we could go to freely try things out.”
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
This is end-user programming, a vision for empowered computing pursued by bright-eyed computer science visionaries.
Szymon Kaliski • https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming/
A small amount of compromise is possible, and it is even needed with great funders. But there's no question that Parc would have failed if Bob Taylor hadn't forced Xerox to sign a legal agreement that they had to keep their hands completely off -- in all ways -- whatever we decided to do for the first 5 years.
This was the right ploy because -- as D... See more
This was the right ploy because -- as D... See more
Alan Kay • (Some excerpts from recent Alan Kay emails)
he helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Personal Dynamic Media Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg