Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to 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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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 don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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