If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
ALAN KAYHumans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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