The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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