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There are visionaries and possible geniuses, then there is Alan Kay
dubroy.com Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com · Sep 10
A few quotes about Steve Jobs from "Valley of Genius" by Adam Fisher.
John Markoff: I was super disappointed. For me iTunes meant that the PC was becoming an entertainment device. I was still back in the bicycle-of-the-mind world. For me it was about augmentation: "Steve, where are the better tools for writers and thinkers?" We actually had that conversation, and he blew me off. Alan Kay: When Steve came back to Apple he was not the same Steve. He was a very effective Steve, but he had lost his zeal for what computers are really good for socially-like education. Completely lost it. And you know I would try to get him back interested in wheels for the mind — "Remember that, Steve?" — instead of dumbed-down user interfaces. Alan Kay: I used to get after Steve and he didn't care, because he was selling it to people who were just happy to continue the dumbing down. It's bad, really bad. Most people can't see it. People don't have any idea what a computer is. They are just using it to play movies on. This is the corruption of consumer electronics-using a computer basically for convenience rather than for actually doing primary needs. If you think about it, this is completely fucked up.
September 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Same - and same
September 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM