I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
ALAN KAYScience requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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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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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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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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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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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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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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