The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
ALAN KAYI knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Some 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.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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