Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYIt’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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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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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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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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