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ALAN KAYI knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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If 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?
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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