If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAYThere’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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