"Technology is anything that wasnt around when you were born."
Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist who pioneered work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design. At Xerox PARC he led the design and development of the first modern windowed computer desktop interface. There he also led the development of the influential object-oriented programming language Smalltalk, both personally designing most of the ear
"I fear —as far as I can tell— that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. Ive heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification."
"Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. Theres an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.” Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that were in — the one that we think is reality."
"I dont know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras."
"... greatest single programming language ever designed. (About the Lisp programming language.)"
"Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)"
"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."