Alan Kay Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.
-
Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
-
What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
-
Speaking is physically difficult for me.
-
The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
-
I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
-
I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
-
I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
-
I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
-
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
-
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
-
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
-
I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
-
I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
-
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
-
The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
-
At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
-
We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
-
I’d rather be dead than so suspicious I can’t trust anybody.
-
I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they'll open up the door to other people. I'm in a position to open up the door to help other people do what I do.
-
When I was a kid, I watched Hugo Sanchez videos. The backflip I sometimes do when I score is actually an homage to him.
-
For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
-
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
-
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.
