The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
ALAN KAYBut Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
ALAN KAYComputer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAYBad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
ALAN KAYI had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
ALAN KAYI knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
ALAN KAYSun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
ALAN KAYThe future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
ALAN KAYBut once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
ALAN KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
ALAN KAYScratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYI fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYUnderstanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
ALAN KAYYazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
ALAN KAYWhen the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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