But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
ALAN KAYThe result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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