Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAYBad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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 new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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