It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
ALAN KAY
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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