Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
ALAN KAYSimple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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[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.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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