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.
ALAN KAYBut once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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