In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
ALAN KAYThere’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
More Alan Kay Quotes
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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