Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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