And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
ALAN KAYBut Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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