Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
ALAN KAYIt’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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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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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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