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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.
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
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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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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I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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