They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAYPerl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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