People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYThe greatest single programming language ever designed
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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