The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
ALAN KAYThe most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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