Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYThe most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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