The greatest single programming language ever designed
ALAN KAYThere’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict 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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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