If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAYPeople are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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