But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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