Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
ALAN KAYAnd I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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