Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYThe greatest single programming language ever designed
More Alan Kay Quotes
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Art 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.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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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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