They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
ALAN KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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 we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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The 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.
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