Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYThe perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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