Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
ALAN KAYIt’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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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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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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