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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More Alan Kay Quotes
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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