Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
ALAN KAYI’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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