If you're utopian, you're never satisfied. Alan Kay More Quotes by Alan Kay More Quotes From Alan Kay Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet) Alan Kay internet real order The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully. Alan Kay coins design done The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay motivational positive inspirational Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what. Alan Kay technology special needs [Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around. Alan Kay fabulous pay people If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems. Alan Kay failing problem challenges We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it. Alan Kay 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. Alan Kay hate law people 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. Alan Kay understanding journey civilization Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning. Alan Kay communication warning television A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it. Alan Kay new-friends wine drinking Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to Alan Kay reading writing art To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy. Alan Kay aim literacy magic In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently. Alan Kay program computer statistics The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There's a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are), and when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers. Alan Kay apples real ideas The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here. Alan Kay results destruction able In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign. Alan Kay nerd slides our-society Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff. Alan Kay born technology stuff 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 voting believe people A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine. Alan Kay machines computer coffee
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