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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.

Alan Kay

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.

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