This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAYI’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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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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.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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