Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
ALAN KAYBad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
ALAN KAYPeople are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
ALAN KAYChange is easy, except for the changed part.
ALAN KAYJava and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYQuite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
ALAN KAYThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYSo I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
ALAN KAYArt also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
ALAN KAYThe protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAYI fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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