There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYIn computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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