Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAYChange is easy, except for the changed part.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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