But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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