Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
ALAN KAYMuch of the debugging has to be done by others.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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