It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict 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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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