They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAYI fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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