The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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