But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
ALAN KAYKnowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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