The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
ALAN KAYSo I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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 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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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