Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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