And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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