And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYI made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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 computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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