That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
ALAN KAYMuch of the debugging has to be done by others.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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