The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
ALAN KAYBut once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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