They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
ALAN KAYIt’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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 is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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