School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYBy the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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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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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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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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