There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
ALAN KAYArt 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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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