In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
ALAN KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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