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.
ALAN KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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