If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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