Change is easy, except for the changed part.
ALAN KAYIf you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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