Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYIf the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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