Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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