Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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