And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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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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