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?
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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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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 computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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