If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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