The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Art 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.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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I 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.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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