The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
ALAN KAYChange is easy, except for the changed part.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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