The greatest single programming language ever designed
ALAN KAYIf you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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