There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
ALAN KAYA computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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