But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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