The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYThe greatest single programming language ever designed
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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