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.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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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 soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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