The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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