There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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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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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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