Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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 computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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 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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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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 User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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