As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYComputer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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