Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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