The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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 Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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