Alan Kay Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Alan Kay

  People, Trying, Debugging

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• Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.

  Alan Kay

  Design, Graphic Design, Graphic

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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.

  Alan Kay

  Training, Degrees, Java

  ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

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  Iphone, Eight, World

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• By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. 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, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.

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  Education, Teacher, Couple

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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. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

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  Journey, Civilization, Understanding

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• In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

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  Success, Tendencies

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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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  Wise, Typical, Cavemen

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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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  Freedom, Science, Blood

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• Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

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  Communication, Humanity, Enough

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• Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

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  Powerful, Men, World

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• The greatest single programming language ever designed

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  Language, Programming, Programming Languages

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• The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

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  Reality, Belief, Problem

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• The only way you can predict the future is to build it.

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  Way

  "The tomorrow people" by Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2005.

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• 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.

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  Curves, Desire, Easy

  "An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay". Interview with David Greelish, techland.time.com. April 2, 2013.

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

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  Poor, Starters, Finishers

  ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

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  Artificial Intelligence, Know How, Artificial

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• The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

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  Real, Romance, Revolution

  "Alan Kay, Computing Pioneer". moniker.net. September 03, 2013.

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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.

  Alan Kay

  Stanford University, Training, Java

  ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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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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  Writing, Intelligent, Doe

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• Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

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  Language, Building, Programming

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• If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

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  Satisfied, Utopian, Ifs

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

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  Technology, Stuff, Born

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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.

  Alan Kay

  Beautiful, Merit, Purpose

  ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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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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  Years, Apples, Different

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