If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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