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Alan Kay

Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Class First Java Language Make Microsystem People Right Sun
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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Bare Degree Encourage First Freedom Investigation Metamedium Representation Tool
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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All Art Material Must Romance Way Well
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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After Anything Born Invent Technology
This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Debilitation Dumb Easy General Product Result Tend Worthless
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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Basically Far Jar Java Program Tell Undergraduate Vocational
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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Circulation Good Kind Money Out Produce Uniform
If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Challenge Fall Probably Problem Sufficient Time Work
When I first prepared this particular talk…
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First Particular Prepare Talk
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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Certification Complain Heard Illustrious Java Program Science Undergraduate University
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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Act Computer Exploit Language Like Machine Nature Protean Shape Such
[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Anything Artisan Computer Else Fabulous Just Place
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Along Element Especial Go Laughter Often Science Surprise
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Different Ide Like Point View
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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Able Beyond Come Conclusion Destruction Document Negative Positive Prove Result

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