Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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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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