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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.

Alan Kay

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Complex Possible Simple Thing
This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Compute Distress Dos Hit Java Microsoft Most Since Thing
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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 only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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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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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.

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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.

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