Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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[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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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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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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