This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAYLisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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