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.
ALAN KAYIf you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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