And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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 computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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