Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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