The greatest single programming language ever designed
ALAN KAY[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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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