Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Because 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.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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 protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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