The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
ALAN KAYIf you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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 real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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