It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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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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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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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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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