An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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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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