There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
ALAN KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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