People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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