School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYThere will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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