Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
ALAN KAYJava and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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