Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
ALAN KAYLisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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