The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
ALAN KAYI fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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.
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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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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