The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
ALAN KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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