If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAYKnowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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