Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAYScience requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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