A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
ALAN KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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The 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.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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