Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYChange is easy, except for the changed part.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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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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