I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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 Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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