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.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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