It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
ALAN KAYThe flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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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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