The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
ALAN KAYLisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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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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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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