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If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
Alan Kay
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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
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University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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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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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.
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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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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to 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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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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 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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. 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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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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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. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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