Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
ALAN KAYMost 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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