To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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