Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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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 computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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