Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
ALAN KAYSome people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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 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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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