They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
ALAN KAYMuch of the debugging has to be done by others.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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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 only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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