Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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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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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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