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.
ALAN KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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