The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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