[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
ALAN KAYI made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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