Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAYThe tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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