If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
ALAN KAYJava and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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