A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
ALAN KAYBad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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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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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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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