The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
ALAN KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
ALAN KAYScience requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYArt 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.
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.
ALAN KAYAny company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYAny medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAYComputer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAYThe greatest single programming language ever designed
ALAN KAYI don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
ALAN KAYAn important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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