Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYSun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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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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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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