If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAYAn important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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