The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
ALAN KAYThere’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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