They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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