The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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