The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking 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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The only way you can predict the future is to build 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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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[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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