The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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