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.
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 had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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