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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
Alan KayAlan Kay But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
Alan KayAlan Kay Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
Alan KayAlan Kay Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
Alan KayAlan Kay The greatest single programming language ever designed
Alan KayAlan Kay In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
Alan KayAlan Kay People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
Alan KayAlan Kay If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
Alan KayAlan Kay 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.
Alan KayAlan Kay Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
Alan KayAlan Kay There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
Alan KayAlan Kay An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
Alan KayAlan Kay This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
Alan KayAlan Kay Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
Alan KayAlan Kay A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
Alan KayAlan Kay Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
Alan KayAlan Kay
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Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
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