Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYWhen was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Art 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.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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