People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
ALAN KAYJava and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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