A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
ALAN KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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