Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
ALAN KAYChange is easy, except for the changed part.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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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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