I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYDon’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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It 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.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The 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.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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