The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
More Alan Kay Quotes
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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 only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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