In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
ALAN KAYThe soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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 made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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