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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.
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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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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The 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.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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