There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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