But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
ALAN KAYAs in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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