The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
ALAN KAYIf the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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The 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.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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