I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYSome 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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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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