If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAYI knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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