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.
ALAN KAYPerspective is worth 80 IQ points.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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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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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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