People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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 greatest single programming language ever designed
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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 is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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