By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
ALAN KAYBut Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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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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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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