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.
ALAN KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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 all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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