Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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 computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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