By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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 soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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