Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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 soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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