Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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