The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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