People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
ALAN KAYThe tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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