The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
ALAN KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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