The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
ALAN KAYThe greatest single programming language ever designed
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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