I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYAny medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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