People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYBy the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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 greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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