Alan Kay
Alan Kay
Alan Curtis Kayis an American computer scientist. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts. He is best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 May 1940
CountryUnited States of America
believe should-have class
Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
secret culture world
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.
stanford-university training degrees
I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
success tendencies
In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
poor starters finishers
I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
real needs tiny
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
nerd our-society slides
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.
satisfied utopian ifs
If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
long term long-term
It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships,
eight iphone world
When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. 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.
technology stuff born
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
gold weight silver
Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
design graphic-design graphic
Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
reality belief problem
The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.