Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAY
School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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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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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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