Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYComputer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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