And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYThere’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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 biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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