Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYI made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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 real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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