I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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 I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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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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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