A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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