Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAYAny medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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People 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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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