In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAYI 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”.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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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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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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