In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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