An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYMuch of the debugging has to be done by others.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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