Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
ALAN KAYThe idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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 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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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