And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYSo I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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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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