Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAYIn computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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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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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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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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