That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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