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.
ALAN KAYI 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.
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYIt is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
ALAN KAYI fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYArt also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
ALAN KAYAny medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAYMost creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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 KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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