As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYThe most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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 knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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