The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
ALAN KAYHumans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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