Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAYIn our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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