Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking 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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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