Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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 fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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