In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
ALAN KAYPeople 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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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