The greatest single programming language ever designed
ALAN KAYChange is easy, except for the changed part.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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