If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAYLisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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