Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
ALAN KAYIf the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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 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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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