And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYThere’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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