Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYLisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYSo I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
ALAN KAYSome people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
ALAN KAYThe future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
ALAN KAYIn our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
ALAN KAYPeople are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
ALAN KAYWhen was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
ALAN KAYThe greatest single programming language ever designed
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
ALAN KAYThere’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
ALAN KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
ALAN KAYScratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
ALAN KAYYazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
ALAN KAYBecause the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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