Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to Alan Kay More Quotes by Alan Kay More Quotes From Alan Kay I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. Alan Kay javatrainingdegrees Change is easy, except for the changed part. Alan Kay changedeasy Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories. Alan Kay cavementypicalwise Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out. Alan Kay should-haveclassbelieve The only way you can predict the future is to build it. Alan Kay way In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing. Alan Kay tendenciessuccess Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible. Alan Kay simplicitysimpleshould The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. Alan Kay machinestechnologylanguage The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure. Alan Kay freedomscienceblood Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful. But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever. Alan Kay meritpurposebeautiful Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others. Alan Kay debuggingtryingpeople Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Alan Kay perspectivewisdom By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. 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, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice. Alan Kay coupleeducationteacher Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. Alan Kay funny-inspirationaltechnologyintegrity Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar. Alan Kay graphicgraphic-designdesign Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough. Alan Kay communicationenoughhumanity I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick. Alan Kay voicebrainthinking The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas. Alan Kay instrumentscomputerideas Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world. Alan Kay powerfulmenworld The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality. Alan Kay problembeliefreality
