Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYThe tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Some 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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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