As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with 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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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