It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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