There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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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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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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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