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Alan Kay Quotes

Change is easy, except for the changed part Picture Quote #1

... Greatest single programming language ever designed Picture Quote #1

Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet Picture Quote #1

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight Picture Quote #1

All the companies I’ve worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent ‘agriculture,’ we could put the world back together and all would prosper Picture Quote #1

The best way to predict the future is to invent it Picture Quote #1

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Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible Picture Quote #1

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of ‘voting’ situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is Picture Quote #1

If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture Picture Quote #1

Java and C make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS Picture Quote #1

The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs Picture Quote #1

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points Picture Quote #1

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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. 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 Picture Quote #1

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating Picture Quote #1

Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it Picture Quote #1

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training Picture Quote #1

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, Picture Quote #1

I’ve been a Fellow in a number of companies: Xerox, Apple, Disney, HP. There are certain similarities because all the Fellows programs were derived from IBM’s, which itself was derived from the MIT ‘Institute Professor’ program Picture Quote #1

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It [the computer] is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated Picture Quote #1

In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing Picture Quote #1

The only way you can predict the future is to build it Picture Quote #1

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language Picture Quote #1

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware Picture Quote #1

Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born Picture Quote #1

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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher Picture Quote #1

It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it Picture Quote #1

The greatest single programming language ever designed Picture Quote #1

Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material Picture Quote #1

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible Picture Quote #1

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it Picture Quote #1

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Change is easy, except for the changed part (Alan Kay Quotes) ... Greatest single programming language ever designed (Alan Kay Quotes) Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet (Alan Kay Quotes) Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight (Alan Kay Quotes) All the companies I’ve worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent ‘agriculture,’ we could put the world back together and all would prosper. (Alan Kay Quotes) The best way to predict the future is to invent it (Alan Kay Quotes) Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible (Alan Kay Quotes) Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of ‘voting’ situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is (Alan Kay Quotes) If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture (Alan Kay Quotes) Java and C make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS (Alan Kay Quotes) The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs (Alan Kay Quotes) A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points (Alan Kay Quotes) I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. 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 (Alan Kay Quotes) There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating (Alan Kay Quotes) Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. (Alan Kay Quotes) I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. (Alan Kay Quotes) School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don’t like the idea of having different points of view,... (Alan Kay Quotes) I’ve been a Fellow in a number of companies: Xerox, Apple, Disney, HP. There are certain similarities because all the Fellows programs were derived from IBM’s, which itself was derived from the MIT ‘Institute Professor’ program. (Alan Kay Quotes) It [the computer] is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated (Alan Kay Quotes) In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing (Alan Kay Quotes) The only way you can predict the future is to build it (Alan Kay Quotes) The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language (Alan Kay Quotes) People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware (Alan Kay Quotes) Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born (Alan Kay Quotes) I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher (Alan Kay Quotes) It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it (Alan Kay Quotes) The greatest single programming language ever designed (Alan Kay Quotes) Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material (Alan Kay Quotes) Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible (Alan Kay Quotes) We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it (Alan Kay Quotes)

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