They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAYThe 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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