Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAYLisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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