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 Kay More Quotes by Alan Kay More Quotes From Alan Kay Change is easy, except for the changed part. Alan Kay changed easy Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories. Alan Kay cavemen typical wise 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. Alan Kay should-have class believe The only way you can predict the future is to build it. Alan Kay way In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing. Alan Kay tendencies success Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible. Alan Kay simplicity simple should The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. Alan Kay machines technology language The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure. Alan Kay freedom science blood 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 merit purpose beautiful 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 debugging trying people Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Alan Kay perspective wisdom 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 couple education teacher 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 Kay funny-inspirational technology integrity Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar. Alan Kay graphic graphic-design design Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough. Alan Kay communication enough humanity 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 voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick. Alan Kay voice brain thinking The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas. Alan Kay instruments computer ideas Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world. Alan Kay powerful men world The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality. Alan Kay problem belief reality If you're utopian, you're never satisfied. Alan Kay utopian satisfied ifs
