The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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