The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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