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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.

Alan Kay

But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Demand Everyone Once Reach Threshold
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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Circulation Good Kind Money Out Produce Uniform
I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Language Made Mind Object Orient Tell Term
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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Civilization Endeavour Host Manner Science Stae Traveling Understanding
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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All Art Material Must Romance Way Well
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Apple As Company Different Every Few Go Join
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Ahead Come Out Real Romance Yet
When I first prepared this particular talk…
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First Particular Prepare Talk
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Hard Nerd Society Soft
I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Approach Done Hate Most People Realize Someone Something Usually
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Computer Idea Instrument Music Simply
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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Artificial Feel Inferior Intelligence Some People Worry
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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Arrogance Computer Ever Know Many Measure Met Nanao People Science
In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Agent Complementary Function World Tool Well
The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Best Careful Coin Designer Even Extension Flip Good Heat Language Programme Side Tend Terrible

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