And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYI had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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The 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.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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