The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
ALAN KAYAnd I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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 hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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