School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYThe 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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