I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
ALAN KAYThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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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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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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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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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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