That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
ALAN KAYChange is easy, except for the changed part.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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