People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
ALAN KAYIn our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking 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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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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