Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYThe most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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It 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.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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