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.
ALAN KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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