The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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