That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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