I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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