Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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