Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYThe greatest single programming language ever designed
More Alan Kay Quotes
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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