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.
ALAN KAYThere will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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 a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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