The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
ALAN KAYChange is easy, except for the changed part.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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