Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYSimple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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