Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
ALAN KAYI fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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