Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYI 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.
ALAN KAYBut 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.
ALAN KAYA computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
ALAN KAYI knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
ALAN KAYWhen was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
ALAN KAYSome 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.
ALAN KAYScience requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYThe 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.
ALAN KAYWhen I first prepared this particular talk…
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYAn important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
ALAN KAYAs in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYThe biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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