In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
ALAN KAYI had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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