But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
ALAN KAYBut once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
ALAN KAYThe 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.
ALAN KAYI made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
ALAN KAYAnd I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYThe hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYScience requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYArt also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
ALAN KAYA change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAYI fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYIf the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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