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.
ALAN KAYScratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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