The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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