Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
ALAN KAYThe perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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