Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAYKnowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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