The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
ALAN KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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