Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
ALAN KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAYIn our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAYI had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
ALAN KAYI’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.
ALAN KAYPerspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYThe future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAYJava and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYEvery technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
ALAN KAYThere will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
ALAN KAYChange is easy, except for the changed part.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
ALAN KAYIt is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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