The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
ALAN KAY
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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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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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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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 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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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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