People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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