People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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 don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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