There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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