Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYHumans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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