As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
ALAN KAYArt 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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 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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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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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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 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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