As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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