If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
ALAN KAYSun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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