Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
ALAN KAYA computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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