Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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It 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.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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