They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
ALAN KAYBy the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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