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.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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