Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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 are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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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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