I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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