In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
ALAN KAYIn a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
ALAN KAYI don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
ALAN KAYThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYIf you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
ALAN KAYScratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
ALAN KAYBasic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
ALAN KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
ALAN KAYJava and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYI knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
ALAN KAYThere will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
ALAN KAY[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.
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAYMost 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.
ALAN KAYThe soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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