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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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