Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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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 soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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