Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYThe most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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