The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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[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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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