By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
ALAN KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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