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.

— Alan Kay, A Conversation with Alan Kay (2005)

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

From the 2004–05 ACM Queue interview "A Conversation with Alan Kay".

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