They had no sense of the significance of what was there — there was no tradition. We didn’t do a good job preparing them. | |
Even if we had done a good job of preparing them, businessmen are more like engineers than like scientists. They [businessmen] want to do more than understand. At some point with new phenomena, you [scientists] have to spend some time understanding it, not just worrying about what are we [businessmen] going to do with it. | |
— Alan C. Kay | |
[This was Kay’s explanation for why Xerox failed to dominate the personal computer market even though the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) had a windows based, mouse-driven PC and demonstrated it to Steve Jobs and Jeff Raskin (from Apple Computer, Inc) several years before Apple came out with the Mac. — KMAB] | |
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January 17, 2011 by kmabarrett
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