The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYThis tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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