Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYBy the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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