Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
ALAN KAYSo I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
More Alan Kay Quotes
-
-
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAY -
The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
ALAN KAY -
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
ALAN KAY -
Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
ALAN KAY -
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAY -
The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
ALAN KAY -
The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
ALAN KAY -
Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
ALAN KAY -
I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
ALAN KAY -
Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
ALAN KAY -
When I first prepared this particular talk…
ALAN KAY -
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
ALAN KAY -
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.
ALAN KAY -
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
ALAN KAY -
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAY