If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
ALAN KAYTelevision should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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