To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
ALAN KAYThe flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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