Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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 hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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