Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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