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.
ALAN KAYBy the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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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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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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