Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
More Alan Kay Quotes
-
-
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
ALAN KAY -
There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
ALAN KAY -
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAY -
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAY -
I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
ALAN KAY -
People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
ALAN KAY -
It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
ALAN KAY -
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.
ALAN KAY -
School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAY -
The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
ALAN KAY -
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAY -
There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
ALAN KAY -
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 KAY -
There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
ALAN KAY -
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAY