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?
ALAN KAYThe flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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