In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAYThe Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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