If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAYPerspective is worth 80 IQ points.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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