Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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