I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
ALAN KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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