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.
ALAN KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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 greatest single programming language ever designed
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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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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