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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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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
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University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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. 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 you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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