People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYThe greatest single programming language ever designed
ALAN KAYIf the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAYI realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAYI’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
ALAN KAYThe 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.
ALAN KAYKnowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYThe future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
ALAN KAYA change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
ALAN KAYMuch of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAYSimple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
ALAN KAYHumans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
ALAN KAYAs in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYSome people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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