Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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