It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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