Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
ALAN KAYPerspective is worth 80 IQ points.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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