The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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