The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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