Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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