The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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