Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
ALAN KAYWhen the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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