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ALAN KAYJava and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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