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.
ALAN KAYThe soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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