The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
ALAN KAYAs in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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