Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAYTo get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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