The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
ALAN KAYI realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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