Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAYSimple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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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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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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