Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYBecause 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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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 flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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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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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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