The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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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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