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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More Alan Kay Quotes
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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