Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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 result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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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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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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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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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 most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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