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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
Alan Kay
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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
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Jazz Guitarist
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Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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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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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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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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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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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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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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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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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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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.
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