Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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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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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.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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