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.
ALAN KAYBy the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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