Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
ALAN KAYThe future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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