A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
ALAN KAYLisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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