There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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