Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYThere will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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 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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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