The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
ALAN KAYSun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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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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[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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