The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
ALAN KAYThe idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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