I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYIt is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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