School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYI had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Some 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.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Art 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.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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