Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
ALAN KAYAn important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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