Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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