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.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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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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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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