There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
ALAN KAYAny company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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 don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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