Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
ALAN KAYBut once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
More Alan Kay Quotes
-
-
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAY -
The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
ALAN KAY -
In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
ALAN KAY -
This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAY -
Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
ALAN KAY -
It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
ALAN KAY -
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
ALAN KAY -
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAY -
I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAY -
To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
ALAN KAY -
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
ALAN KAY -
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAY -
In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
ALAN KAY -
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
ALAN KAY -
Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
ALAN KAY