And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
ALAN KAYThe result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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