Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
ALAN KAYA computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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 not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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