If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
ALAN KAYKnowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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