The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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Some 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.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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 we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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