Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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