There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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 greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Perspective 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 only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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