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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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