Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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