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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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 hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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