Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYDon’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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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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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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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 that wasn’t around when you were born.
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