I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYI fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYAnd 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.
ALAN KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
ALAN KAYTelevision should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
ALAN KAYIf you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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 KAYThe result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
ALAN KAYThe tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYSun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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 KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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