It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
ALAN KAYIt’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
ALAN KAYLisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
ALAN KAYIf you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
ALAN KAYIn our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
ALAN KAYQuite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
ALAN KAYI 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.
ALAN KAYAnd when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
ALAN KAYKnowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYSo I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
ALAN KAYThe most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
ALAN KAYThe 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.
ALAN KAYAny medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAY