I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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I 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.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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