We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAYSun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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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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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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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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