The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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