Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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