Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYBasic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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