If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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