Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYIf 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?
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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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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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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