[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
ALAN KAYA computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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