And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYAny company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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