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, A Conversation with Alan Kay (2005)

Source: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

From the ACM Queue interview, Vol. 2, No. 9 (Dec/Jan 2004–2005).

Topics: programming