Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
ALAN KAYIf 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?
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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 best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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