The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
ALAN KAYA computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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 protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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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.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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