Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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 perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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