They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Some 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.
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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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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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