I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYThe perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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.
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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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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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.
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