A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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