Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYBut once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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