To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
ALAN KAYBy the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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