There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
ALAN KAYSun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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