There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
ALAN KAYIt is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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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.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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