Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYIt’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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It 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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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