Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAYAn important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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