Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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 soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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