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 KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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