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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.

  Alan Kay

  Training, Degrees, Java

  ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• 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

  Wise, Typical, Cavemen

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• Change is easy, except for the changed part.

  Alan Kay

  Easy, Changed

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• The greatest single programming language ever designed

  Alan Kay

  Language, Programming, Programming Languages

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• Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.

  Alan Kay

  Design, Graphic Design, Graphic

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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.

  Alan Kay

  Ocean, Technology, Men

  Interview with Andrew Binstock, www.drdobbs.com. July 10, 2012.

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• When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

  Alan Kay

  Iphone, Eight, World

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• In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

  Alan Kay

  Success, Tendencies

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• 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

  Thinking, Voice, Brain

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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.

  Alan Kay

  Writing, Intelligent, Doe

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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.

  Alan Kay

  Journey, Civilization, Understanding

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• The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

  Alan Kay

  Reality, Belief, Problem

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• Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

  Alan Kay

  Artificial Intelligence, Know How, Artificial

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• If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

  Alan Kay

  Satisfied, Utopian, Ifs

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• The only way you can predict the future is to build it.

  Alan Kay

  Way

  "The tomorrow people" by Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2005.

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• 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

  Freedom, Science, Blood

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• 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

  Education, Teacher, Couple

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• Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

  Alan Kay

  Powerful, Men, World

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• The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

  Alan Kay

  Real, Romance, Revolution

  "Alan Kay, Computing Pioneer". moniker.net. September 03, 2013.

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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.

  Alan Kay

  Stanford University, Training, Java

  ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

  Alan Kay

  Poor, Starters, Finishers

  ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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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.

  Alan Kay

  Curves, Desire, Easy

  "An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay". Interview with David Greelish, techland.time.com. April 2, 2013.

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• Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

  Alan Kay

  Language, Building, Programming

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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.

  Alan Kay

  Technology, Special, Needs

  "The Infobahn Is Not The Answer" by Alan Kay, www.wired.com. May 1, 1994.

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• When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It's kind of a Gresham's Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.

  Alan Kay

  Hate, Law, People

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