The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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And 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.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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