The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict 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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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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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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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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