The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
ALAN KAYIt’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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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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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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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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