I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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