There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
ALAN KAYBy the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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