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 KAYAnd I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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