Alan Kay Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.”
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“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.”
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“I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.”
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“I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.”
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“Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.†Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in — the one that we think is reality.”
-- Alan KaySource : "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.
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“Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”
-- Alan KaySource : Creative Think talk, www.folklore.org. July 20, 1982.
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“I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.”
-- Alan KaySource : YouTube Channel "Jeff Gonis"/"Alan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet", www.youtube.com. February 11, 2013.
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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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“The only way you can predict the future is to build it.”
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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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“Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
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“Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.”
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“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”
-- Alan KaySource : Creative Think talk, www.folklore.org. July 20, 1982.
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“Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.”
-- Alan KaySource : "An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay". techland.time.com. April 02, 2013.
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“The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.”
-- Alan KaySource : "The AI Business: The Commercial Uses of Artificial Intelligence". Book edited by Patrick Henry Winston and Karen Prendergast, 1984.
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“Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.”
-- Alan KaySource : "A Conversation with Alan Kay: Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk — and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman in ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.
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“The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.”
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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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“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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“I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume†- because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voicesâ€. 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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“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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“As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.”
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“We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.”
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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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“Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.”
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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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“A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.”
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“Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.”
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“The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.”
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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.”
-- Alan Kay
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