That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
ALAN KAYPerspective is worth 80 IQ points.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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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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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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