And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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