The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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