Alan Kay Quotes, Believe Quotes, Should Have Quotes

Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

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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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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

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It's easier to invent the future than to predict 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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful. 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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.

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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

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When I first prepared this particular talk... 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. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. 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. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.

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