The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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