Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
ALAN KAYThe soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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