There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
ALAN KAYScratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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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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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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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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