As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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