As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYI 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”.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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