Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYHumans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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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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[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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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