A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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