I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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