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.
ALAN KAYMost creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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