Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYQuite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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