Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
ALAN KAYBut once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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I 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.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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