I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
ALAN KAYHaving an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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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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