By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
ALAN KAYJava and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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 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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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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