That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
ALAN KAYPerspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYSimple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
ALAN KAYLisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYMuch of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAYIn computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
ALAN KAYThe hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
ALAN KAYArt also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
ALAN KAYAny medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAYI don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
ALAN KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
ALAN KAYI had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
ALAN KAYIf the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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