Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAYIt is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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 only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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