I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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