The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
ALAN KAYThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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