Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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