Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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 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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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 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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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