I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYPerl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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