4 Alan Kay Quotes on Design

Alan Kay quotes on design

4. Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.

7. OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I'm not aware of them.

16. 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.

24. ... greatest single programming language ever designed. (About Lisp programming language)