I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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