The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
ALAN KAYThe most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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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