Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
ALAN KAYI knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The 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.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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