I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYThe future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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