In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAYBad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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[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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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