I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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