If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
ALAN KAYPeople are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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