Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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