Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
ALAN KAYThe hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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