But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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