Alan Kay Quotes

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

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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

Carlos Ghosn
- Happy
- Take
- Consequences
Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.

Damon Galgut
- Writing
- Words
- Acting
On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

Indira Gandhi
- Hand
- Poverty
- Look
With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

Aaron Ashmore
- Work
- Trying
- Popular
I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.

Gary Hume
- People
- Time
- Long
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

Joanne Rowling
- Writing
- Idea
- Bliss