I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
ALAN KAYScience requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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