Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
ALAN KAYI fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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