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.
ALAN KAYSo I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
ALAN KAYThe result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
ALAN KAYScratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
ALAN KAYA computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
ALAN KAYI made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
ALAN KAYUnderstanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYThe tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
ALAN KAYBad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
ALAN KAYIn a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
ALAN KAYAs in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYJava and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYSome people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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