Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
ALAN KAYSimple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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 greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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