The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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[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.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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