Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAY[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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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