Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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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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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 our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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