If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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