It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
ALAN KAYMuch of the debugging has to be done by others.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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