Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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More Alan Kay Quotes
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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