By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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