I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
ALAN KAYBy the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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