Alan Kay Quotes

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.

There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful - many more.

History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.

For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.

America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?

C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly strong for the basic system-type things.

Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful. Well then, in Welsh for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent.

I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth. I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this earth. The best thing about having a daughter is having a true legacy. The word love means something completely different now.

I have purpose. My life has meaning. I am engaged in a profession that I'm passionate about. I have some place to go every day. I'm expected. There's always a task at hand. I have beautiful relationships in my life. I have a beautiful home, I go to meetings. I work with others. I stay busy.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

But it's not only: What are you going to do about touring, it's: What are you going to do with your life? Is there a point to what we do? I think there is. Making music, creating beautiful things. We have to be in love with the good and the beautiful. If we are not, then you're in a nihilistic state.

I have many, many editions of the books, and they are all rather different. In the end, the one I used was the most recent French translation. French suits the tales well, and it's a beautiful translation. The Italian one is good as well... English has fallen short.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

It’s not our job to assess the merit of our vision or judge its importance. It is our job to receive the vision and act upon it.

The earth turns on its orbit for You. The oceans ebb and flow for You. The birds sing for You. The sun rises and it sets for You. The stars come out for You. Every beautiful thing you see, every wondrous thing you experience, is all there, for You. Take a look around. None of it can exist, without You.

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

We have life. That's what's beautiful.