The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
ALAN KAYArt also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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