Change is easy, except for the changed part.
ALAN KAYSun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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