Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYBasic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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 Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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