The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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 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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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