People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
ALAN KAYPeople are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
ALAN KAYI made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
ALAN KAYAny company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAYThe Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
ALAN KAYUnderstanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
ALAN KAYWhen the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
ALAN KAYDon’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
ALAN KAYThe tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
ALAN KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
ALAN KAYThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYPerspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYA change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
ALAN KAYSome 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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