The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
ALAN KAYThis tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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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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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