So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
ALAN KAYPerspective is worth 80 IQ points.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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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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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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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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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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