People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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