Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYArt 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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 most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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