The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
ALAN KAYThe biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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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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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 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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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