The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
ALAN KAYAnd I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
More Alan Kay Quotes
-
-
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAY -
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 KAY -
I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
ALAN KAY -
But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
ALAN KAY -
There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
ALAN KAY -
This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
ALAN KAY -
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
ALAN KAY -
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.
ALAN KAY -
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.
ALAN KAY -
Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
ALAN KAY -
If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
ALAN KAY -
If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAY -
The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
ALAN KAY -
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAY -
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
ALAN KAY