Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYSun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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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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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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