Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYSimple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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 and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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