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.
ALAN KAYThe most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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 future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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