Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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