I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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