As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYAnd I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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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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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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 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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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