The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
ALAN KAYA computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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