The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
ALAN KAYAny company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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