Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYThere will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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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 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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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to 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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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