People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAYI 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.
ALAN KAYI’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYArt also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
ALAN KAYThe 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.
ALAN KAYPerl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
ALAN KAYThe soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
ALAN KAYMuch of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAYIn our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
ALAN KAYThe tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
ALAN KAYPeople are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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