People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
ALAN KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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