When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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