Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAYThe idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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