The greatest single programming language ever designed
ALAN KAYComputer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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