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.
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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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