Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
Alan Kay
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Programmer
University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
Language
Perl
Another
Filling
Problem
Programming
Need
Tiny
Real
Short
Needs
Longer
Example
Term
More quotes by Alan Kay
The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
Alan Kay
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
Alan Kay
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.
Alan Kay
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. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
Alan Kay
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
Alan Kay
In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
Alan Kay
I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
Alan Kay
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
Alan Kay
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
Alan Kay
Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
Alan Kay
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.
Alan Kay
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.
Alan Kay
It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
Alan Kay
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
Alan Kay
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
Alan Kay
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
Alan Kay
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
Alan Kay
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
Alan Kay
