People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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 most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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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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