An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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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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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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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