Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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