I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAY
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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.
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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 Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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