If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAYAnd I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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