The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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