Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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