Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
ALAN KAYSun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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