The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
ALAN KAYThe hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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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 most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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