I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
ALAN KAYScience requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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