The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
ALAN KAYThe greatest single programming language ever designed
More Alan Kay Quotes
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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